I really was going to try to avoid the temptation to make
every post between yesterday and election day a politics post,
but then the Pennsylvania Republicans sent a flyer to our home
asking if I'm "bitter".

Damn straight, I am bitter.
I'm bitter that despite the fact that the voters of Pennsylvania
voted to support
Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004,
we've still had to put up with the policies and actions of
George W. Bush for the past eight years.
Now, there are those who believe that either Gore or Kerry
would have been a worse President than Bush.
Believe me, they exist and I have talked to them.
Myself, I do not see how it is even possible
they would have been worse.
Bush's policies and actions have been awful
for the people of Pennsylvania, and I am certainly
bitter that we've been forced to put up with them.
The rest of the country does not seem to have PA's
best interests in mind when they make decisions,
and I am bitter that they want us to say,
"Thank you sir, may I have another."

I definitely think John McCain would have made a better President
than George W. Bush has been. I think McCain rolled over and showed
the Bush administration his belly in return for their help in 2008.
I think they managed to convince him they were going to be great in
office and he'd be unstoppable in 2008 with them behind him.

Unfortunately for him, and unfortunately for us, they were wrong
in almost every possible way. Despite this, McCain has not turned
his back on their policies and their help, but has embraced the
viewpoints, ideas, strategies, and staff of the Bush/Cheney campaign
as his own.

I'm so bitter that the Republicans are still
acting like they're right all the time when they so
clearly are not. I'm so bitter that they act like
Pennsylvanians ever wanted them in charge of the country.